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Tomo, every time you get an eclipse some one gets eye damage. Your brother would know all the lurks and perks. He would have lots of fun making a primary mirror.

Warning, warning to anyone wanting to put their eyeball to a telescope eyepiece to view the sun. There are different methods of filtering the sun and some are safer than others especially if the telescope is specifically designed for that purpose. Some setups are just plain dangerous. If you were to expose your eye to the full or even partial collected light from the sun, your eye would vapourize or at best go blind. Just google "dangers of looking at the sun with telescope" Don't take my word for it.

Seen your wish list but there are lots of a\c now under $10000. Bought a cheap boat and if it sinks I can say "tough tittys" with a smile. Can do the same with a cheap a\c.

Dear Mr Herm, I spent many years in another life constructing telescopes including reflecting optics. In the interest of safety, even filters at the eyepiece can crack allowing intense light through. A small magnifying lens can focus the light and start a fire. A small telescope [4" to 12"] can do a lot more damage. The only time I looked at the sun directly with a telescope was with an uncoated mirror [reflecting 4% light] and filters. With a coated mirror and while adjusting the focus the focal point of the primary can pinpoint onto your filter with enough heat to crack it if not melt it. Project the sun's image onto a white screen. [white cardboard] is the safest. RKW said Tomo, I can lend you a white cane! Don't worry, he would have only lost one eye. Make the same mistake twice and he would need to take up the offer.

Becoming a religous nutter can have it's advantages, even if you are pretending.

There are few people as a percentage who can sucessfully make a buisness work and from what I observe few have formal qulifications. Dazza, I bet you write posts in your sleep.

A lot of people assume that someone in "business" is rolling in money. Quite often if you add up assets and liabilities, the guy is broke many times. It is only cash flow that gives an income. A lot of small speculative mining companies work that way awarding big salaries to "management" but the value of company is a big minus figure. They get the cash from stock market rip offs, and there are many schemes.

of course everybody knows not to look at the sun directly, especially with a telescope. In fact even the unfoucused heat can destroy an eyepiece not to mention fry your eyeball.

If you eat a burger that lasts forever, then do you last forever? [you are what you eat]

The reason we want to eat so much fat is hereditary. Thousands of years ago so much energy was used to hunt for food that fat was needed in big quantities to be consumed. Now we still want all that fat but don't burn it off with lots of activity.

One of the big mysteries of life:puzzled:

Better for 8 billion people-thats a lot of clogged up arteries

Some icecream do not have cream but use skim milk instead, which is better

They would make good pilots-at times you do just as much juggling in the cockpit.